Bruce Sinofsky

Bruce Sinofsky March 31 1956 February 21 2015 was an American documentary film director particularly known for his films the Paradise Lost trilogy Brothers Keeper and Some Kind of Monster all created with Joe Berlinger Sinofsky was born in Boston Massachusetts As Senior Editor for Maysles he worked on commercials and feature films until 1991 when he and Joe Berlinger formed their own production company Creative Thinking International They jointly produce edit and direct documentary films which have appeared on over 50 critics choice lists including Paradise Lost Brothers Keeper Hollywood High and Some Kind of Monster Their work is done in various styles including a paen to the Cinéma vérité Metallica Some Kind of Monster covers the band as they participate in group therapy before recording their first album in five years Paradise Lost chronicles the inhabitants of a small southern town a year after a series of brutal murders in style similar to that of award winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris They have also done a documentary on the southern record label for blues and country western artists Sun Records called Good Rockin Tonight The first movie Sinofsky directed in 1992 was the documentary My Brothers Keeper which tells the story of Delbart Ward an elderly man in Munnsville New York who was charged with seconddegree murder following the death of his brother William Chicago Tribune film critic Roger Ebert in his review of the movie called it an extraordinary documentary about what happened next as a town banded together to stop what folks saw as a miscarriage of justice Sinofsky has won a Directors Guild Award and two Emmys